Exploring the role of rail systems in genocide
World Without Genocide will hold a webinar, open to all, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, called “The Last Train to Auschwitz.”
Ellen J. Kennedy
Antisemitism is surging. Here’s a primer.
The oldest hate isn’t likely to go away any time soon. I have no solution so long as people can be incited to lash out against those they don’t understand.
When citizens disappear at the hand of the state
Enforced disappearances as an international human rights crime can be traced back to the Nuremberg trials in Germany following World War II.
Genocide by social media posts: Will Facebook be held accountable?
The U.N. determined in 2018 that Facebook played a “determining role” in violence against the Rohingya, inciting widespread violence and amplifying hateful content through its algorithms.
Sexual exploitation cannot be tolerated on a rural campus — or anywhere
Τhe Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed to support survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The bill has always been bipartisan and was strengthened and reauthorized many times — until the Trump administration.
The Taliban, Afghanistan and the Uyghurs
The value of Afghanistan’s rare earth elements is estimated at $3 trillion. The pullout has happened, and those minerals are up for grabs — and China is grabbing.
Targeted for genocide in Afghanistan: The Hazaras
The plight of the Hazaras isn’t well known on the international stage. They are an ethno-religious minority, about 9% of the Afghani population of 36 million.
What happens when democracy is attacked and people look away?
We failed Spain and its democracy in the 1930s. We have a chance to save a democracy now.
Hunger: both a cause and a consequence of genocide
We are experiencing the onslaught of extraordinary heat waves, droughts, storms, fires, and floods that cause unmitigated and prolonged scarcities of food and water all over the world.
From the Nazis to the U.S.: LGBTQ hate
More than 80 laws against transgender people have been passed so far in 2021 or are pending in state legislatures across the country.
The Jews, the Armenians, and the Herero: genocides and tattoos
The survivors of genocides are permanently marked, not only through the psychological scars of lifelong trauma but also through physical symbols that perpetrators put onto their victims’ bodies.
Thousands of Falash Mura, caught up in violence in Ethiopia, seek entry into Israel
A small Jewish community of Ethiopians known as Beta Israel has lived in Ethiopia’s Amhara and Tigray regions for 3,000 years. Some converted to Christianity to stay safe; they are known as the Falash Mura.
After four years of misogyny, we must stand up for women
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, to be celebrated on March 8, is “Choose to Challenge.”
On U.S. internment camps’ lessons — and the Supreme Court’s evolution on the law
This month is the anniversary of one of the darkest episodes in U.S. history. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into detention camps spread throughout the country.
U.S. needs the impetus, leadership, and commitment for positive peace
Positive peace is defined by The Institute for Economics and Peace as true, lasting, and sustainable peace built on justice for all.
Where innocents are targeted, the global community must respond
Not enough people are saying “Hineni, here I am.” But we are here. We must raise our collective voices. We have the global tools. We need the political will.
In Poland, hate is spreading against LGBTQ, Jews, Muslims
Attacking the LGBTQ community played a major role in Poland’s right-wing president, Andrzej Duda, July re-election to a second five-year term.
Detention, injury, even death: the price of a free press
Journalists risk their lives to tell us what we must know to preserve democracy and to stand up when our rights are threatened.
China, Tibet, and the Uighurs: a pattern of genocide
The reasons are the same in both Tibet and Xinjiang: China wants to control the two regions.
Protect our kids from Betsy DeVos
DeVos has led the Department of Education to change Title IX in order to loosen efforts to protect children from abuse and to increase protections for the abusers.
